I actually think fish need bicycles more than public health needs MAHA.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

Does public health need MAHA? As much as a fish needs a bicycle. Latest episode on centrists trying to tell those of us who warned about MAHA that we need to pamper those who unleashed it on us all.

Good article on That Study claiming to show the Thing that is designed to clear particles from the air does not work on magic particles that somehow defy physics, but actually showing that the Thing doesn't work well when turned off, turned on too low, poorly placed or (checks notes) urinated on.

Can air purifiers prevent flu and COVID-19 in nursing homes? Only if they’re used properly

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Anyone casting doubt on the effectiveness of filtration on the reduction of respiratory diseases ought to have a word with pig farmers because pigs get appropriately sized air filters in crowded spaces porkgateway.org/resource/pri...

Principles of Air Filtration for Swine Facilities - Pork Information Gateway

Air filtration is a commonly used biosecurity practice to minimize the spread of airborne diseases. Common airborne diseases include Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV), Mycopl...

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A rebuttal by @gorskon.bsky.social

Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM

Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integrate

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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

And hopefully this will help other places figure out how to follow along

David Keegan@drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · last wk.

ospe.on.ca/advocacy/a-m... This is how it’s done. Listening to, and being guided by, science.

@joho.bsky.social doesn't hold back on challenging Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee and their over-the-top endorsement of Jay Bhattacharya. From "In COVID's Wake" to this doozy of a piece, he was a hero to them. Now? Crickets. sciencebasedmedicine.org/macedo-lee-m...

Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health

From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no one should let you forget that.

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Professor Clive Beggs stated during his testimony to the UK COVID Inquiry that there is no situation where respiratory droplets could be produced without producing significant amounts of aerosols. [Courtesy of @catinthehat.bsky.social]

JFC, not this nonsense apologia again. Making this argument two years after RFK Jr. co-opted the A MAHA slogan as his personal brand to distract from his antivax history and help elect Trump again is embarrassing…for Spencer and The Atlantic.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

🚨Breaking🚨: NIH is terminating health disparities research grants again. This time, they may successfully avoid legal challenges by giving specific reasons for their decisions. One grant so far, more to come. Exclusive @science.org by me and @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikes

With cancellation of health disparities project, agency may be testing new way to legally kill politically sensitive grants

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I chose the subtitle very consciously. 3 years later, here we are.

Matt McNeil Show@mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's the worst measles outbreak in 35 years, AND IT'S ONLY JULY!!! Anyone who thinks Brain Worm Magee is right to run the health department is a fool! www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

The more you look into how infection control manages to 🤬 up COVID so badly, the more you realize it's a representative example of how they manage to 🤬 up everything so badly. IPC is a dumping ground for empire-builders. Also, in possibly the single most manipulative line of... #medsky #cdnpoli

Regina hospitals still haven't cleaned up the hand-washing problem diagnosed in 2018 | CBC News

Saskatchewan Health Authority says hand hygiene is important for preventing hospital-acquired infections, but does not say why auditor's 2018 recommendations have yet to be fully implemented.

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Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · last yr.

I want to highlight a story from May 2020 that really hammers home the mismanagement of the pandemic by public health and infection control leaders. Nursing home in Montreal, COVID everywhere, staff sick, people dying. It killed a significant proportion of the people there.

😷 We have read the UK Covid-19 Inquiry's Report on Procurement from the perspective of Clinically Vulnerable people and families. We were NOT Core Participants in this module, so many of our issues were outside the evidence heard and therefore not fully addressed. 1/🧵

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Nukit@nukit.bsky.social · 3w ago

For those of you into making DIY air purifiers using low-cost and recycled parts, we made a free P-Q tester for PC Fans using @phyphox.org on your phone and a 3D printed box. Learn about it here: github.com/opennukit/Nu... Test it here: filterboxbuilder.com/fangauge/ Great STEM-Ed project also😊

Several players have flu-like symptoms ahead of their biggest World Cup match ever. While teams often obscure the truth around sickness due to gamesmanship, it's surprising that more high performance athletes don't take simple precautions like wearing a mask.

Norway struggle to stay healthy as World Cup travel takes its toll

Norway coach Stale Solbakken said some of his players have been feeling under ​the weather ahead of their World Cup quarter-final ‌against England on Saturday, as a month of travel, training and high-...

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And similar strategies could work in other countries too

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

"Measles is the canary in the coal mine for vaccination & public health. Robert B. Shpiner, a critical care expert at UCLA medical school wrote “I have seen children harmed by disease or poverty BUT NOT UNTIL NOW have CHILDREN🤒been HARMED METHODICALLY by their OWN🤮GOVERNMENT.” LA Times #Pinks

Hiltzik: It's not just vaccines — from infancy to adolescence, Republicans are waging war on children's health - NewsBreak

The conservative war on child health starts with the anti-vaccine campaign and proceeds to cutbacks in nutrition assistance and narrowed access to healthca

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Neat #visual connects to the importance of #IAQ 👇 Src: Exposures in Indoor Air Affecting Health (Dec 2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... [ FREE PDF available ] 🙏 @smartairfilters.bsky.social

Exposures in Indoor Air Affecting Health

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is influenced by a wide range of chemical, biological and physical agents that can negatively impact physical, immunological and mental health. Adverse health effects depend ...

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Smart Air@smartairfilters.bsky.social · last mo.

How what's in the air can affect your health. 🔻

This is why the framing of misinformation as something that only happens to some stereotypical "ignorant redneck" is so insidious. It buries the real danger: mis- and disinformation is too often created, spread and believed by those in positions of power over medical policy and guidance.

Upstream of Misinformation: Mark Ungrin on Scientific Errors, Institutional Policy, and Public Trust

Interview with biomedical researcher Mark Ungrin on how misinformation can originate inside scientific institutions and shape public health policy.

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Sadly, we knew long before COVID that everyone should be wearing N95s. It was so well established that it was encoded in Canadian standards. But the overconfidence of out-of-date clout-chasers buried it by insisting they *knew* it wasn't airborne.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is why the framing of misinformation as something that only happens to some stereotypical "ignorant redneck" is so insidious. It buries the real danger: mis- and disinformation is too often created, spread and believed by those in positions of power over medical policy and guidance.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

📱You can save and share this leaflet on MON 15th to bring awareness to the open letter signed by 58 orgs & 1200 individuals about the communities legitimate concerns about the framing of Long Covid at the #RCPsychIC #socialmediacampaign #HearOurVoices

The editorial that the ADA was so afraid to have handed out at their annual meeting is really fantastic diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

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I was interviewed for this revisionist propaganda & provided detailed refutations of every point it. I didn't make the cut. Oh well! The @wsj.com thinks only doctors who treated 0 COVID patients have valuable insights about COVID. At least it won't fool anyone. Everyone can see through it.

The Lockdown Dissidents

YouTube video by Wall Street Journal Opinion

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Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

diabetesjournals.org

Jeremy Faust, MD@jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

"They physically grabbed us, forced us out of the conference center, & now are telling us we can no longer attend this meeting. They're taking our lanyards," Kelly said. "It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real…America needs to stand up. Scientists, stand up. Physicians, stand up”

Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions

medpagetoday.com

New modelling shows upgraded ventilation can sharply cut airborne exposure for staff on respiratory wards. Engineering controls matter. We need this ambition across the NHS. Study by Zachreson, Geard, Sheena Sullivan, et al., @unimelb.edu.au et al. www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...

Room-return ventilation and N95 respirator policies for reducing airborne pathogen exposure on hospital wards

Understanding interactions between the components of bundled mitigation measures can aid the prospective evaluation of hospital infection control programs. This work provides a prospective, simulation...

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We are totally unprepared for any airborne risk in the UK. The same people who got the guidance incorrect are still in charge why? @jamesmurrayldn.bsky.social

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oh FFS How many times are we going to try to redefine the term "airborne"? Or deny its existence as a significant route of disease transmission? And by "we" I don't mean the aerosol scientists Or the general public I mean WHO, ID, IPAC, Public Health & related influencers

Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why Ebola Isn't Going to "Go Airborne" And stop sounding so excited about it rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/why-ebola-...

Helped edit this very useful roundup of the latest long Covid research, by @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/05/29/p...

PolyBio’s Spring 2026 symposium: Advancing Long COVID biomarkers and treatments - The Sick Times

The PolyBio Research Foundation recently announced new initiatives and centered biomarkers during their latest virtual conference.

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